PlanetScale
Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
US, Europe
UTC-10 to UTC+4 $120k to $290k per year Full time
Mid level
- Where you can live
- Remote
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC+4
- Salary
- USD 120,000 to 290,000 per year
- Posted
- May 19, 2026
Summary from the posting
Our customers entrust us with their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Postgres engineering team and help us build a world-class managed Postgres offering.
What's the job to be done?
- You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
- You will build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures.
- You will tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest and most demanding workloads in the world.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on PlanetScale's own career page.